Economist Asher to head Haryana's Finance Commission

Renowned economist Mukul G Asher will head the Fifth State Finance Commission set up by the Haryana government.
The nine-member Commission also includes a freelance journalist and a social worker, an official release said here today.
Asher has been a Professorial Fellow of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore since 2012 and Director Public Policy, Global Village Foundation, Delhi since January 2016, it said.
He specialises in areas of public sector economics, social security and public policy. His current research interests include various aspects of public finances in Asian countries, social security issues in Asian developing countries and economic relations between India and East Asia, it said.

The other members of the Commission are Vishnu Bhagwan, Rohini Aggarwal, Aniruddha Rajput, Sham Lal Bansal, Rajinder Mohan Walia, Anurag Bakshi, Neeta Khera and IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, who is currently Special Secretary, Haryana Secretariat Establishment and Finance Department. He would be the Member Secretary.
The Commission shall make recommendations related to the principles which should govern the distribution between the state and zila parishads, panchayat samitis and gram panchayats of the net proceeds of the taxes, duties and fee leviable by the state.
It would also make recommendations regarding determination of taxes, duties, tolls and fee which may be assigned to or appropriated by the gram panchayats,panchayat samitis and zila parishads.

It would also recommend grants-in-aid to these bodies from the consolidated fund of the state, the release said.